Explanation
Background:
The 2005 budget funds in the citywide account an improvement in the performance management component of ColumbusStat which involves creation of a management oversight group to assist departments in operating more efficiently to provide essential city services in the most effective and least costly way possible. This initiative is modeled upon Baltimore's CitiStat program. The oversight group will consist of existing executive-level personnel on Mayor's staff and in the Cabinet and will be staffed by expanding the duties of budget management analysts in Finance. The ordinance transfers $169,295 from the Finance citywide account to other major object levels in Finance to fund the staggered addition of four analysts in Finance during 2005.
Fiscal Impact:
The Finance citywide account includes $169,295, which was appropriated for this purpose.
Emergency action is needed in order to allow the Department of Finance to get the process underway to begin the expedited implementation of the performance management portion of the ColumbusStat program.
Title
To authorize and direct the transfer of $169,295 within the general fund in the Department of Finance, and to declare an emergency ($169,295)
Body
WHEREAS, a transfer of $169,295 within the General Fund, Department of Finance will fund the staggered addition of four analysts in Finance during 2005 for staffing required for the implementation of the performance management component of the ColumbusStat program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City of Columbus in that it is immediately necessary undertake the aforementioned actions, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; Now, Therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $169,295 within the General Fund, Fund 10, Department of Finance, Department 45-01, from Object Level 1 10, Object Level Three 5501, OCA 904508 as follows:
Object Level 1 01 |
OCA 450015 |
$150,560 |
Object Level 1 02 |
OCA 450015 |
14,665 |
Object Level 03 |
OCA 450015 |
4,070 |
SECTION 2. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.